Posts filed under ‘Making Progress’

01.26.12

A milestone. A huge one.

I started this blog 3 years ago with no aspirations. No goals. Not knowing what to tweet about1. Not knowing what to write about. Thinking I wouldn’t have any readers if I wrote solely about sex toys rather than recounting ~erotic~ stories from my sex life. At best, I’d get free sex toys and stretch my writing muscles, and at [...]

05.07.10

Why I won’t be coming out any time soon

My mom is having a sex toy party. I knew the moment I read the email that I wanted to go. I poked around the company’s website, relieved to find their store not completely dependent on shitty jelly toys. Then I tweeted. “My mom does not know I review,” I wrote, “so I will have [...]

01.14.10

Hell Yes: Ola

[Updated 07/19/11 with links for purchase!] There were several new toys unveiled at the Adult Entertainment Expo this year, but Ola is the only one I’ve seen that really looks innovative. It’s made by Minna, a brand new San Francisco company. Sex toys are getting a lot smarter, and I love it. This one is special [...]

03.22.09

Review: Benjamin Bond

When I began reviewing sex toys, my vagina was the biggest wimp. I was still a virgin, after all, and had only penetrated myself with a tiny toy skinnier than two of my fingers. Of course, I was promptly assigned an insertable toy. It was a rabbit, but the shaft really wasn’t very thick. Nonetheless, [...]

02.21.09

Cal Exotic inches toward integrity

I’m a freak. The moment I heard that California Exotic Novelties launched a new website, I flew on over there. The “new” site is underwhelming; it doesn’t seem much different from the old site. Products no longer open in new tabs, though, and there’s a cute-looking new blog. But there is something else new at [...]

12.03.08

More real than usual

Ignore the fact that there has not been a product like this until now, friggin’ 2008, because then we can all be excited. Behold: a fake pussy molded from the body of pornstar April Flores. It’s not on the market yet, but should be in a few months. Until then, April posted some sexy photos [...]

11.19.08

A revolutionary cock

Sometimes I talk about the future of sex toys whimsically, hopefully, as though all toys will one day be made of body-safe materials, all packaging will be incredibly classy, and all toys marketed as anal toys will have decent flanged bases. Ha. I know this is all too far-fetched, but I also know that there [...]

10.19.08

LELO’s Bo: cock ring of the future?

I just discovered the existence of Bo, a new cock ring from LELO. Get this: it’s rechargeable! Has any company made a rechargeable cock ring before now? I believe not, and this makes Bo all the more intriguing. Bo is made of TPE, comes with a travel/charging case, and supposedly lasts up to 4 hours [...]